The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-08-20
and Lincoln Co.
ant Facts, Figures,
and Statistics.

part of Lincoln County,
exico, 81 miles by the mail
III Carthage, the termiuu,
IN Pedro conl mine branch
4. r. X 5. +. K. r., lO3
ON SOcorro, on the main
} miles from ri Pa-o, Tex
10 from Lincoln, the 60.
e Oaks is the largest town
county, and the scat ot au
mt supply trade. Its fine
tied in II valley, among th.
t the Carlo range, at am c.-
oi $40 feet above sen
1t has tive religious organ
s.. Methodist and Congrcaa
It, a large and prosporou.
school, two weekly ncw,pu-
We prospcrou, mercantile e-
.meuts two hotels. two bill.
HIS. two blacksmith shops,
$50 Il wagon snop,) one tween
mp gold mill in operation al.
iuntngtor Centrifugal mill.
10 stamp gold mill.
great llomcstake Gold Mines
ne mile n. ". OF the centre OF.
own, and around them are %
rich mines, less developed.
ost adjoining the town, o. the
.. are incxhaustible mines Of
varying from bitumlnou. fo
anthracite. From four to
II miles n. W. of the town, in
Mountain region, az ~
I'VE bodies of magnetic lr"p
of excellent quality and hlgn
Twenty miles south and
/ west lie the silver lead mi"c-
re Bonito mining district, L,c
gold mines OF the Nogal min.
and the copper ,,i'vol
lng) ores Of the "west side.
town is abuudantly supplied
water ; wood is abundant il.
foothills, and timber in the
ntain ranges.
.hlte Oaks has a daily mail to
hage, ON the railway, and tC
81 miles east. 1t l,
present objective point Of tho
ago, st. Louis e FL Paso R.lt
building from FL Paso. Texas
i, destined to be an importan
4; unon that railway when i. il
le' tu Kansas City, rs tho
.ssary link in the shortcs' pos>l
inc Dotu Chicago ard tn.
ot McA'co.
ne County Of Lincoln, in th.
h-.asteru corner of New MeXi
is $50 miles in extreme length
100 in extreme breadth. am
tains u, Hoo square miles. /
iyided, from north to south, b.
Rio Pccos, an iTuortant stream
Oh receives within the counr.
lcrous tributaries arising IN th
side Of the Great Range,
he western part of the Count.
by mountains, local
wn ~ the Gallinas, Jicarillas
.zos, Sierra Blancos, &c, al
ions Of the Great Mountoi.
re dividing Eastern New Mes
The peaks Of these range
from-Gallinas and Jack
k, about 5000 feet, to Carlo
20, Nogal, 10000, and Sierr
lco, 10000.
he population of the Count.
5000 in 1885, NOW about g. 100
towns, other than hite Oaks
San Patriclo, Pichaco
ed, Dowlin's Mill, Galena, Ros
4, Seven Rivers, Three RNor-
Lookout.
wo-thirds Of the County con
!; OF fine grazing lands, mainl.
watarcd, and stocked wit.
900 head Of cattle, an iurr.a-
900 Eer cent. in ; year
yora goat has made his a@....
E in the mountains OF ijuro
.ntv. and he is here to stay d.
yes whore nothing else wi
exceedingly profitable
Ter. There are but teN
he county, about $4,000
mules, and burros,
kass esq like the sand
shore, for multitude,
IN the Penasco, Ruideso
Iiondo, Seven Rivers
.er, and Pccos, there ar w
of agricultural lands.
ms have been opened
,se streams, and upon Il u
N produced in exceptions au,
and quantity every farm ur
: which can be raised l' -.a
elevation. The experience
late Chas. fr,,D dcmoustraJ,
It Lincoln County will rroauo
abundance, all the Northe'
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